re: Tiger Woods had a little bit of everything in his system during DUI

Sounds like he is enjoying life.

Does this mean what was in his system or what he was under the influence of at the time? Could it be that he smoked weed a few days ago. Took Vicodin a few days ago. Had a xanax a day before. But was just drunk on ambien at the time?

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A urine test revealed hydrocodone andhydromorphone, two opioid pain medications; alprazolam, prescribed for anxiety and panic disorders; zolpidem, a sedative prescribed for insomnia; and metabolites of alprazolam and of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana. Metabolites are what remains in the body after a person uses a drug

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Come on, who doesn't mix xanny poppers with percos and weed, and then finish off with a little ambien nightcap. Standard operating procedure.

No secret that he takes anxiety and sleep medication. He's pretty fricked up.

Rory has gone on record talking about how Tiger, and this is years ago, would call him at 4am wanting to talk and shite.....while he was lifting weights like a mad man.

I know literally nothing about mental health. But it seems to me he was addicted to doing his best and going 100% at all times. At some point, you can't do that without drugs(PE or not). Then they take hold and ruin you.

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Does this mean what was in his system or what he was under the influence of at the time? Could it be that he smoked weed a few days ago. Took Vicodin a few days ago. Had a xanax a day before. But was just drunk on ambien at the time?

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This is where I was mistaken earlier about the Xanax. The half-life is how long the drug effects, but it can stay in your system longer. The effects of xanax are 6 hours. The opaites would be even shorter, and the weed probably even shorter, with the ambien having an effect for 8 hours.

How long it stays in your system for purposes of a drug test are always going to be longer than the above, and how long depends on whether it is a urine test, a blood test, or a follicle test. For a follicle test, forget about it. Most all stay a real long time.

A blood test will be most commensurate with whether you are currently messed up on the drugs. They stay longer in your urine, and Tiger was given a urine test. So, yes, conceivably he wasn't messed up on all those drugs at the time.

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hey got it IV. Orally, it's a lot less effective. I doubt Tiger was shooting up. The hydrocodone probably packed a bigger punch.

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I got in a motorcycle accident about six months ago messed up my leg pretty good. Fortunately, it wasn't broken, but I had a really nasty laceration -- the skin basically got scraped off my shin (several inches of bone were exposed....pretty gnarley).

ANYWAY....ambulance comes and they put an IV in me on the way to the emergency room. They tell me that they are going to pump me with [insert very tiny amount] of fentanyl. My response was "you mean the stuff that killed Prince?" Dude assured me it was a small dosage -- and it was -- and they gave it to me. Oh. Dear. God. What. A. Drug. I went from squirming because the pain was unbearable to just pure bliss in a matter of literally seconds. Holy balls it was amazing. And, again, this was a tiny dose.

It only lasted about 15 minutes before it wore off and they never gave me any more of that when I got to the hospital, which is probably a good thing because that is a drug that is just too good to mess around with.

called it

I'm really disappointed in myself for this level of accuracy.

Thank god I have some xanax to take the edge off

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You missed the weed, but still good work.

It's definitely the combo. You're completely right about the opiates. They just don't do that to you no matter how much of it you take.

Benzos are a bit of a stranger animal. People react differently to them. They make some people loopy af, but they don't have that effect on me. I was taking them when studying for the bar exam because I was just a nervous wreck, and they did exactly what I needed them to do -- took the edge off while leaving me clear-headed. I took them while studying and, yes, when I took the bar itself, and passed comfortably.

Ambien actually messes me up way more than benzos, but I don't think it affects my physical coordination because I always seem to find a way to sleepwalk to the fridge and eat half of whatever is in it. I won't remember any of this the next day, mind you, and only know that it happened because like loafs of bread will be left open with crumbs everywhere and shite. It's kinda funny, actually. Ambien doesn't get the credit it deserves for packing a punch.

Weed will have a physical effect on me, and probably much more than most people. If mixed with alcohol, it can certainly render me completely unable to move. I"ll never understand people that can function on weed. Evena little weed renders me, at least in my own head, unable to interact socially, and a lot will basically knock me into a temporary coma.

Anyway, so the problem certainly lies in the combo, and one shouldn't underestimate the effect that the weed might have played in putting him over the edge.

Yeah dilaudeds are fun